Authors

Christine Burke

Christine Burke followed her dream and is now a writer and an artist. She studied art under Karl J. Kuerner, who was mentored by Andrew Wyeth. Her works are displayed in art galleries and in many private collections throughout the Delaware Valley and some throughout the world.

Christine is deeply involved in education. With twelve years of experience as a Regular/Special Education Teacher and Reading Specialist, she now teaches private art lessons, facilitates art workshops to children and adults and co-directed and created Flower Power, a summer camp in 2008. She also works one on one with clients helping them go within to find and birth their creative dreams.

Christine believes in embracing each person’s individual journey and in tapping into the unlimited potential found in the inner world of the heart and intuition. Her mission is to inspire children as well as adults to listen to and honor the Creator within.

Quote of the day

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.

Emily Dickinson

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Martin Tupper

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

There are books...which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.